The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests; with Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsE. Bumpus, 1888 - 403 pages |
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Page 42
... dark when we arrived . at San Carlos to see anything that night of the great lake , but we heard the waves breaking on the beach as on a sea - shore , and from further away came that moan- ing sound that has from the earliest ages of ...
... dark when we arrived . at San Carlos to see anything that night of the great lake , but we heard the waves breaking on the beach as on a sea - shore , and from further away came that moan- ing sound that has from the earliest ages of ...
Page 43
... dark forests . The lake is too large to be called beautiful , and its vast extent and the mere glimpses of its limits and cloud- capped peaks appeal to the imagination rather than to the eye . At this end of the lake the water is ...
... dark forests . The lake is too large to be called beautiful , and its vast extent and the mere glimpses of its limits and cloud- capped peaks appeal to the imagination rather than to the eye . At this end of the lake the water is ...
Page 44
... dark we were off the islands of Nancital , having been all day within a few miles of the north - eastern side of the lake , the banks of which are everywhere clothed with dark gloomy - looking forests . One of the islands was a ...
... dark we were off the islands of Nancital , having been all day within a few miles of the north - eastern side of the lake , the banks of which are everywhere clothed with dark gloomy - looking forests . One of the islands was a ...
Page 45
... dark the wind failed us again , and we got slowly along , but finally reached our port , San Ubaldo , about ten o'clock , and found an officer of the mining company , living in a small thatched hut , stationed there to send on the ...
... dark the wind failed us again , and we got slowly along , but finally reached our port , San Ubaldo , about ten o'clock , and found an officer of the mining company , living in a small thatched hut , stationed there to send on the ...
Page 51
... dark dim mountains of Costa Rica , amongst which dwell the Indians of the Rio Frio and other little- known tribes . Before us were spread out well - grassed savannahs , thinly timbered , excepting where dark winding lines of trees or ...
... dark dim mountains of Costa Rica , amongst which dwell the Indians of the Rio Frio and other little- known tribes . Before us were spread out well - grassed savannahs , thinly timbered , excepting where dark winding lines of trees or ...
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